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The 6th Annual JWFan Awards - The Best Scores and Films of 2013


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I've got a list coming up. But not till the weekend. In the middle of midterm exams at the moment.

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TOP 10 FILM SCORES OF 2013:

1. Man of Steel - Hans Zimmer
2. Grand Piano - Víctor Reyes
3. Adore - Christopher Gordon

4. The Best Offer - Ennio Morricone
5. Philomena - Alexandre Desplat

Runners up:

The Monuments Men - Alexandre Desplat

The Book Thief - John Williams
The Wind Rises - Joe Hisaishi

Escape from Tomorrow - Abel Korzeniowski

Saving Mr. Banks - Thomas Newman

BEST TV MUSIC OF 2013:
1. Isabel - Federico Jusid

BEST FILMS OF 2013:
1. YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET!
2. BYZANTIUM
3. AMERICAN HUSTLE
4. MAN OF STEEL
5. HANNAH ARENDT
Runners up:
THE GRANDMASTERS
PAIN AND GAIN
IN THE HOUSE
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Interesting. One of my friends, who is a concert pianist, said Grand Piano's score was a "hack job." He was also comically brutal about the film itself.

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Yeah, I'd love to hear that score. I've heard a lot about it.

And i thought you liked The Hobbit Sharkey?

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Out of curiosity, do you have some kind of promo CD for The Grand Piano?

I'm just going by the score as I heard in the film + the soundtrack album.

And i thought you liked The Hobbit Sharkey?

I liked a couple of tracks here and there, but the rest I find painfully dull. Too many Wilderlands for my taste. Sorry gang, I'm with publicist on this one.

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I didn't originally like Wilderland too much, but have grown to like it a real lot. I like the longer version in the film itself, makes it a bit more epic or something.

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Films

12 Years a Slave - 56 Up - All is Lost - Gravity - Inside Llewyn Davis - Nebraska - Prisoners - Short Term 12 - This is the End - The Wind Rises

Scores

All is Lost - The Book Thief - Escape From Tomorrow - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Nebraska - Philomena - Prisoners - Romeo and Juliet - Saving Mr. Banks - The Wind Rises

Haven't heard The Book Thief or Romeo and Juliet with the films, though.

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Desolation of Smaug is an interesting score in that it's simultaneously the most unique and different of his Middle Earth scores and closer to the LOTR sound than AUJ was at the same time.

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I just found it to occupy a really weird space between pastiche and seriousness. Hard to explain really. It just seems like a piece of imitative music that was written to exist in the world of the film as a concerto or whatever, a few incidental minutes of the story, but it massively overstays its welcome by taking on the role of score too. Doesn't help that the film was absolutely ludicrous.

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Oh, the film is absolutely terrible, no question. Like, ridiculously bad.

 

I liked the score though, both the main title cue and the performance pieces. If those are a pastiche, I wouldn't know what of, cause I don't know anything about classical music.

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Since I have now seen more films and heard more releases from 2013, I thought I'd update my list.  You can see my original list, which I haven't altered, in post #1


BEST SCORES OF 2013:
1. Howard Shore - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

2. Brian Tyler - Now You See Me

3. Michael Giacchino - Star Trek Into Darkness
4. Pino Donaggio - Passion

5. Laurent Perez Del Mar - Loulou, l'incroyable secret 
6. Chad Seiter - Star Trek: The Game
7. Chris Tilton - SimCity
8. Abel Korzeniowski - Escape From Tomorrow

9. John Williams - The Book Thief

10. Mark Mancina - Planes

 

Runners up

Ramin Djawadi - Pacific Rim

Víctor Reyes  - Grand Piano

Abel Korzeniowski - Romeo and Juliet
Alan Silvestri - The Croods
Danny Elfman - Epic
Henry Jackman - Turbo


 

BEST CATALOG TITLES OF 2013:

1. Alan Silvestri - The Abyss (Varese)

2. Jerry Goldsmith - Poltergiest II (Kritzerland)

3. Don Davis - The Matrix Reloaded (La-La Land)
4. Henry Mancini - Breakfast at Tiffany's (Intrada)

5. John Williams - Rosewood (La-La Land)
6. Michael Kamen - Lethal Weapon 1-4 (La-La Land)

7. John Williams - Heidi (Quartet)
8. John Williams - Fitzwilly (Music Box Records)
9. John Williams - The Missouri Breaks (Kritzerland)
10. James Horner - Cocoon (Intrada)

 

Runners Up

John Williams - The Fury (La-La Land)

Jerry Goldsmith - Congo (Intrada)


BEST FILMS OF 2013
1. Prisoners

2. Gravity

3. Passion

4. Blue Is The Warmest Colour (La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2)

5. Her

6. The Wind Rises

7. The Wolf of Wall Street

8. Europa Report

9. American Hustle

10. Pacific Rim

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Not sure if I've participated in any of these 'year' threads, but I'll respond by links to various places I've published my selections:

 

My 10 favourite scores of 2013:

 

http://celluloidtunes.no/celluloid-tunes-12-the-10-best-scores-of-2013-4th-international-edition/

 

Playlist, from 10 to 1:

 

Stalingrad — «Stalingrad Theme» — Angelo Badalamenti
Summer in February — «Lamorna» — Benjamin Wallfisch
Oblivion — «Starwaves» — M83 & Joseph Trapanese
Romeo & Juliet — «Wedding Wows» — Abel Korzeniowski
Gagarin: First in Space — «The Launch of Vostok» — George Kallis
Pain & Gain — «Run Him Over» — Steve Jablonsky
Prisoners — «The Lord’s Prayer» — Jóhann Jóhannsson
Grand Piano — «Piano Concerto – First Movement» — Victor Reyes
Gravity — «Shenzou» — Steven Price
Copperhead — «Main Titles» — Laurent Eyquem
Winnie Mandela — «Sunrise» — Laurent Eyquem

 

My favourite 20 movies from 2013:

 

http://montages.no/2014/01/thor-joachims-topp-20-2013/

 

 

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I liked the film too. A very tight and focussed thriller, much like Wes Craven's RED EYE. There isn't a lot of music outside the piano concerto, but that alone is worth the price of admission!

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